First, there are the smallest munchkins. They usually stand by your front door afraid to say anything and have to be encouraged by their parents to request the sweets they crave. Moms and dads are usually in the background watching to make sure nothing bad is thrown into their bags.

Rest assured they have already been trained to not eat anything until it is thoroughly inspected. And isn’t that a shame? I remember when I’d have half my candy eaten before I returned home. Halloween is really for these little guys. This just may be their first time. Make it worth their while.

There were 64 qualified entries for the seventh week of the contest. No contestants picked all 10 games correctly, two picked nine games correctly, 23 picked eight games correctly and 39 picked seven games correctly. Eighteen contestants did not pick at least seven games correctly in order to qualify for the drawing.

Week 7 winners of the Pigskin Picks T-shirt are Darryl L. Giles, of Martinez, Greg Davis, of Evans, and Becky Muckelvaney, of Martinez.

Pansies are available in many colors, from white to rich gold, purple, red, rose, maroon, orange and violet, with many shades in between. They are available as solid colors, called clear-faced pansies; blotches of colors, called faced pansies; and two-toned pansies. Some varieties have petals with crinkled or ruffled edges, and flowers range up to 4 inches in diameter. There are more than 300 varieties of pansies on the market.

The Augusta Area Master Gardeners is 30 years old and several of the program’s first graduates are still putting what they learned in the sessions to good use.

“Sid always makes a joke about my age and that I was in the first class with Barbara Botts and Jim Bennett,” said Sharyn Altman of Richmond County Extension Agent Sid Mullis. “Jim was worried about passing the test since he had a TV show at the time. Imagine how I felt!”

The previous two entries in the notebook included fun times with other classmates, things like “riding in a golf cart!” and “going to church to sing songs about Jesus.” I was sure, as I thought through our weekend, that we would include some spirituality and fun as well, but by the end of Bella’s time with us, I was musing about how much the bear might want to just keep to herself.